Links Ahoy! Today, I will mix a little substance/current events in with my usual fluff. Just because.
- Got a bit crashy and shooty today on Capitol Hill.
- Housing Startzzz!!! If I remember correctly from the past 8 years, this is completely as a result of Teh Prezident’s Awesomeness – nothing cyclical, normal or whatnot.
- I am not sure how to snark on this one…can you all help me out?
- Um…wut?
- Odds on someone getting beheaded for this? But seriously, Egypt is the heavyweight of the Arab world when it comes to TV, movies or music.
Enjoy your afternoon, and snark on!
Comments
261 responses to “Wednesday Afternoon Links”
THIS IS CETI ALPHA FIVE!!!!!
THIS IS SPARTA?
You know if the Federation had just marked the planet as ‘Warning: Planet of evil geniuses, stay away’ that whole plot could have been avoided.
Thanks for the links this morning. The one about Dallas trying to divert funds from DART was helpful for a project a work today.
Thank sloopy… he dug that outrage nugget up!
Then I retract my ‘thanks’ to you.
Noted!
‘Odds on someone getting beheaded for this?’
That’s not possible. I was informed that the Muslim Brotherhood was just a political party and not a terrorist group. Anwar Sadat was not available for comment
Our snark is worse than its bite
*narrows gaze*
I’m rooting for the dog
Here Come the Judge
see if you can see in the piece where the AP tries to slip in assertions about unrelated things that aren’t technically true
Oh shit I me’d it
I think it was The Telegraph which had initially reported something very similar/the same as what Napolitano claimed his sources told him. The more I learn about Fox News and how it works, the more I think they really are just the most useful idiots of all.
This guy.
This is quality comedy, right here. Thanks for this…
Right? I was crying-laughing in my cubicle today. I haven’t worked there long enough to get away with that!
Re: The Staffordshire Story.
The Daily Fail really outdoes itself on that story. It’s like they decided to see if that whole chimpanzees-with-typewriters was feasible. About all I got was possibly-rehabilitated-but-probably-not depressive addict attacked by possibly-deranged-and-hungry staffordshire bull terrier.
Obviously tragic, but not much in the way of informative journalism.
The Daily Mail is the my top news source and I’m tired of the derogatory remarks.
Another LastPass vulnerability discovered.
Damn it. I Gilmore’d the threading.
u mad bro?
Are you kidding? I learned that limeys are even dumber than I had imagined:
There was some nonsense at the end about the reporters themselves being taken into custody. Wait, the reporters who wrote the article? Who’s to say?
Also, I couldn’t tell from the article if they witnessed the attack, or if the neighbor downstairs was attacked while they were interviewing somebody else (who also had a dangerous dog?).
I attributed to the whole thing to the reporters being traumatized by watching their interviewee being eaten before their very eyes.
Or maybe the dog wrote it.
I’m betting the dog was abused, starved, taunted, etc. It’s not about the breed. It’s about the owner.
Carl’s Jr. has been lost to the darkside. They will no longer have scantily clad women advertise their products with their leadership change.
No son of mine is going to objectify women like that!
Fuck em then.
I’ll still go to Hardee’s for breakfast, though. Their biscuits are terrific.
Are they replacing it with sexy men?
I mean this was a decent start, but didn’t go far enough.
The public isn’t ready for oiled up Greco-Roman wrestling ad campaigns yet, Jessie.
Advertisers have a moral duty to push the boundaries of public comfort for art’s sake, Bro.
Here’s one that’ll get Eddie a little slick in his panties.
Hmmmm. I’m straight as a laser beam, but even I found myself getting a little . . . stimulated by that ad. In a “bromance” kinda way, natch.
Although grilled meat tends to do that to me.
There’s a Carl’s Jr. Jr. in Hollywood, or at least there used to be. It was a small version of a Carl’s Jr., but I really wish they would call it Carl’s the Third.
Fuck branding.
I would spend more money at a joint that spends it’s advertising budget on food and service quality over those who sscrifice those so they can afford an advertising campaign.
Unlike Costanza, I’ve never been into mixing food and sex in any form. Makes both chicks and food more gross and less bonerworthy.
I did though enjoy the little pullover graphic where the soul patch and cargo Hitler becomes the full-bearded hipster. (Minus a bit of alt-rightiness, that look–like the goatee–now screams flyover because it’s what the coastals were doing a quarter century ago.)
But in general, it’s interesting how routine attempts at upscaling (here, as in Wal-Mart’s, especially urgent because of the seemingly permanent sales decline of the sector) now can get some free attention for spinning it as wokeness. It’s like that Axe Body Spray Super Bowl ad last year. No one in the always-thorough press seemed to notice or care that Axe had actually been steadily and publicly backing away from the “laddish” theme for years by then; nor that this had *never*, contrary to the press stories, involved “abs” or adonises (that was Bod Man), but rather “attainably attractive” dork types getting the girl. If they’d *really* wanted to be ballsy, they would have ditched those queens voguing in pumps and done the traditional Axe laddish theme using hot muscle dudes.
The derp on the dog article comments is quickly reaching full strength. On one side you have “AH MAH GAWD DUH EVUL MAN EATING PIT BUUHHHLLLSS!” and on the other you have “Oh that poor man, he didn’t deserve that!”
1) Dogs don’t just snap. If a dog mauls somebody, either that somebody did something awful to the dog or the dog is mentally unstable. If the person mauled is the owner then it’s usually a little of both.
2) If someone owns a dog that mauls someone, 9 times out of 10 that guy is/was a fucking shitbird. Reading the article I see plenty of evidence supporting my claim.
I do not disagree. Mrs. Jonathan Brizby was attacked by a pitbull mix once. Having met the owner, I couldn’t even be surprised. Total dirt-person.
“Mrs. Jonathan Brizby”
Secret of NIMH?
There is no secret. You just need to discharge them fully from time to time, and let them cool after a charging cycle before you start to use them.
Not sure if serious…
Not sure if serious…
WHY DID IT SHOW UP LIKE AN HOUR AFTER I POSTED IT?! WWWHHHYYYY!!!
You bet! One of my favorite childhood movies.
She goes by Briz for short. And she is quite short.
I enjoy telling people that there is no such thing as a ‘pit bull’ breed.
Although you would never know from the media:
http://i43.tinypic.com/2nuinow.png
I used to work with a pit rescue and we had a good working relationship with local animal control. When we came in to pick up two “pit bull” puppies who were obviously Australian shepherds, the staff let us in on something. Turns out that the animal control officer who admits the dog has to write down whatever breed the cop or person calling it in says. So they’d get ten pound chihuahuas that were pit bulls. Same apparently was true for dog attack reports.
Yeh, most that is credited to Obama on the business/markets/economic front can be attributed to cyclical and coincidental factors; the stock markets mostly thanks to low interest rates.
It defies logic a man with his sophomoric views on business and finance could impact the economy positively through policy he forged.
“a man with his sophomoric views on business and finance”
Which President do you mean?
All of them?
President Powder Puff.
WHO THE HECK DO YOU THINK I MEAN?
They’re all good dogs… until they suddenly aren’t anymore. Weird* how domesticated creatures still have instincts…
*Not really weird.
I have the same problem with women.
You and me both, Bro’
I think the dog heard about that Chihuahua thing.
I work with a lot of injured Postal workers and the number of letter carriers who have been assured by dog owners that their dog is super nice *while* the dog is chewing on their leg, arm or face is astounding.
That’s what this lady had to say about her dogs–both of which were registered service animals of some kind.
Yeah, a registered service animal who attacked another dog. Seems legit.
Maybe it identified as an attack dog?
Attacking is a service.
By “registered service animal” you asked your doctor if you can use your dog as a service animal. And hx said ‘yes’.
I tell everyone who wants to pet my dog that he is an old asshole and might bite them.
That’s what I tell people, too, especially kids.
She’s so bad with kids. They always think she’s a puppy, but she’s really a cranky old bitch.
My Shepherd was awesome with kids but I never let them just approach her without me there. I don’t care how nice the dog has been in the past, they are animals, not hairy people.
But enough about Riven.
(This is why there are no female libertarians….)
My dog (GSD) is the sweetest dog to the people she knows and they just adore her. Everyone else she wants to kill, so I am a very safe and responsible dog owner.
My dog was super nice to everyone…until he got old. I know he had arthritis and such and even though I gave him stuff for it, I think that’s what made him cranky. I almost shit a brick one time when we were hanging outside in a kind of park-like area and a little kid came up and started patting him a bit too hard on the rump (where the arthritis was) and he snapped at the kids face a little bit, basically a warning. I was like no!!! if my dog bites a kid in the face it’s lights out!
OMG. The Russia-meddled-with-the-US-elections paranoia is getting more insane. For the sake of sanity, I haven’t been watching CNN for months (more like years) but I’m sitting at an airport now and watching it. I can barely hold myself from tossing something at the TV screen. Or at the very least asking the staff at the lounge from changing the channel. I’m telling you back when I still traveled to Russia regularly, which was like 10 years ago, the Russian TV was always bashing this or that country (it could be Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus and always the US). It’s pretty much the same thing going on now on CNN. The only difference is that the Putin propaganda was less conspiracy-tinged — the idea that the Russian opposition politicians were all on the payroll of the US State Department wasn’t always the key message.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/326331-how-obamas-white-house-weaponized-the-media-against#.WNvlVh1HfDU.twitter
Restore your sanity
(not a defense of Chettoh Mussolini)
I thought we’d agreed he’s Doritos Berlusconi.
As if the media needed any prodding or help.
the comments
It’s going to be funny when this all comes back around and blows up in their faces. It’s started, and it’s going to grow if the Trump administration has any sense whatsoever. The only criminal activity here is by Democrats.
The media is desperately trying to silence that story.
It will be harder to do that when the shit hits the fan. Which, if any Republicans have any balls whatsoever, should be coming in the next few months. Not to mention when Trump gets his people fully in place. I can’t wait for Comey to be out on his ass.
The fact the Repubs haven’t learned a goddamn thing from getting thrashed by Trump in the primaries and watching him destroy the Anointed One in the election just solidifies how they will always be the Stupid Party.
Wait, aren’t you Russian?
*Eyes grrizzly suspiciously, reaches for phone to call CIA*
It’s FBI, if there’s still any semblance of the rule of law in this country.
CIA it is then.
‘It’s easier to hack an election than eBay’: confessions of a Belarusian hacker
Sounds spicy!
Even spicier!
Getting a bit less spicy…
*sigh*
Hacking eBay or Citibank would not be easy in any case.
I think they make sure your password isn’t P@de$ta, unless your name isn’t Podesta.
Dude, your bank account is at risk. Email me your username and password stat, so I can fix it before the Nigerians steal your monies.
Hey, Edward Mbasa told me YOU were the guy who told him I was an honorable guy!
I get this one in my work spam folder about once a week…
So.
You took the deal right?
Of course, I’ll be donating several thousand West African francs to everyone here.
Eh, depends on what you mean by “easy” and “hack”. Bug bounty participants have found some pretty bad stuff in the past.
“on eBay” should have been in there, although hopefully you guessed it. I don’t have anything to say about Citibank.
Introducing the Galaxy S8 = Now With 85% Less “Bursting into Flames”
Only 85% less? That still means we’ll get one good fireball out of her.
My Galaxy S7 has never burst into flames. My Note 7, tho…
I’m a big fan of my S7. And I’d be onboard with upgrade to the S8 if they roll out any promotions.
Apparently it’s a free Gear VR and Gear VR controller as for promotions. Plus the earbuds it comes with are pretty high end.
I could use the VR controller – I wanna play Deer Hunter.
Mine, neither. I love this phone.
get.a.life.
My Galaxy 500 never caught fire.
So I still can’t charge my phone next to my extensive collection of gas cans and fireworks?
I have a Galaxy S6 that’s a couple of years old at this point. Thinking I’m probably going to upgrade to this one. Hopefully it doesn’t burn my house down.
Out of curiosity = for those of you with these big-ass phones…. (and i consider anything bigger than “fits in a blazer chest pocket”, big-ass)… how long does the battery last?
I got a relatively small one about a year+1/2 ago (a motorola droid pro) expecting the battery life to be better. It was… for maybe the first 8 months. Now its basically as bad as the thing it replaced.
A full charge in my Nexus 7 lasts 2 to 3 days. When I first got it over a year ago a full charge would last a week.
that’s a phone? looks like a tablet when i google it
I think it’s wonderful that you don’t mind admitting you have small hands.
Here’s the @()#&*@($* picture
seriously tho, do you carry a purse to go with it?
OK, apparently THAT person has small hands. The phone fits in the front pocket of my jeans no problem. It’s about the size of a dollar bill, with a half inch tacked onto the long side.
that picture suggests its more the size of a paperback novel
and the specs on its page say its 7.8″x4.5″ – compared to a 6″x2.6″ USD$
Ha, you know what? I just realized I had fat-fingered the model. I have a Nexus 6. 6.27″ x 3.27″
I have a OnePlus2 and the battery is usually around 40% when I plug it in at night. Even after 15 months or so. I use it a ton, as my office phone forwards.
Pixel XL aka the Google Watches Me on the Toilet phone.
Battery life is superb for a smartphone. I rarely am below 50% at the end of the day.
I picked up the Moto Z Play specifically because it was under-specced and battery sipping. I can get away with 2 days of normal use on one charge and a full day of heavy use with one charge.
It has absolutely changed the way I interact with my phone now that I don’t have to make sure it’s charged again before I leave work or carry a spare battery or battery pack.
The impression i’m getting is that i was exactly wrong about my calculations about what might improve my phone life –
i thought getting a smaller phone w/ less screen to power, i’d make more efficient use of the smaller battery. I’m guessing the opposite is true – the smaller battery does a crappier job over time.
It’ll really depend on use. If you have your screen on quite a bit the screen time battery drain could be a bigger factor. If you’re casually checking your phone occasionally it might be less of a factor. Also newer iterations of Android are much better about scaling back services when you aren’t actively using your phone.
That and all the shit that your carrier loads on the phone. Big phone, big battery and as clean of an OS install as possible.
I’m on the s7 edge dumping it for the next pixel. Touch wiz is clunky slow garbage.
On my Pixel XL, I have about a quarter of battery life left after a day of heavy use.
Michelle DuBois warns illegal immigrants of ICE:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/29/michelle-dubois-democratic-lawmaker-defends-post-w/
Good?
The new face of suburbia: Economic woes and early death
I’m sorry, the image of a more caring, sharing Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rolla poring over a report on suburban woes is just comical.
Its pretty simple. Most users use just so they can function. And the overdoing it has more to do with life sucking with no prospect of improving. All they’d have to do to figure this out is wander in to a methadone clinic and talk to a few people
How can they be addicted if the medications were prescribed?
Sebastian Couple Tell Police They Are Part Of Illuminati
They don’t exactly look like Illuminati material. *does the secret handshake*
“They don’t exactly look like Illuminati material.”
Exactly – thanks to their bizarre behavior, everyone will assume they’re *not* Illuminati!
I was hoping for an explanation about why they were under a blanket
which one was the female ?
Neighbours heard the disturbing screams of a man shouting ‘get the dog off me’ as he was mauled to death by his Staffordshire bull terrier in front of a BBC camera crew.
But despite reports about a BBC crew interviewing him when it happened, they knew nothing of a film crew being present at the time of the attack.
Asked if there had been a BBC crew shooting a documentary at the time, she said: ‘No. I don’t know anything about that. I never saw a film crew.
Um.
I wondered about that too. If the neighbors saw the police battering the door down, where was the camera crew? Did they just film the mauling and pack up their equipment and leave? Locking the door behind them? If there was no film crew, who was he asking to get the dog off him?
This was clearly a snuff film gone right,
Wayward golf club swing lands country club worker in lawsuit
ow
Arr! My Groin!
So is that an eagle, or does he incur a one stroke penalty?
Christ that sounds like something out of a family guy episode.
I wonder if he’ll be rated under the 5th or 6th edition of the AMA Guidelines for Permanent Impairment.
A country club employee whose left testicle was surgically removed after the club’s general manager struck him in the groin with a golf club
Having a testicle removed by a golf club doesn’t even remotely sound surgical to me.
Rufus, what’s your Anglo/Allophone take on the Maclean’s article about the snowstorm that basically cost the McGill prof his job?
“Trop tard”
“But seriously, Egypt is the heavyweight of the Arab world when it comes to TV, movies or music.”
A lot of content, especially the uh, haram type, comes from Lebanon.
Go on…
Biting the
handbody thatfeedsdoesn’t take discipline and take care of you properly because of your addiction? (longest sentence evah)That sentence is all kinds of screwed up. Oh well. *wanders off*
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=VPN
Google searches for VPN up over the last few days. Hmm wonder why?
Jezebel is one of my favorite hate reading places. Mostly because of how fantastically unself-aware/uninformed every last one who writes and comments over there is.
This article and comment section about Paris banning “sexist” ads is particularly hilarious
“This isn’t a law regulating women, though, it’s a law regulating advertising. Women can still go look up all the sexist ads they want, if they choose, they just won’t be blasted with them as they walk down the street. (And neither will young girls, who didn’t choose any of this shit.)”
Jezebel is REAL journalism, shitlord! They even have their Masters degrees from Columbia to prove it!
Uh huh. Hey, ladies, cover up your sexy bits, or else. No, I’m not a conservative prude, I’m a progressive pro-woman feminist!
I’m reminded of this gem.
Neither are a man’s feet…
Does Paris have any slippery slopes or is it relatively flat?
Check the red light district.
Better start covering up all those classic nude sculptures, don’t want to bombard these women with imagery that will give them body issues!
Ugh, my arms are so long and un-stumpy.
For some reason I heard that in Judy Greer’s voice.
OT
Does anyone know what happened to Groovus ?
The last post of his I saw was him saying that he was going to start a column here answering medical questions.
I’ve not seen him since.
Yeah, I wanted to ask him about hypovolemic shock, from the dog mauling article. Instead I had to google and read about it for myself, like a PLEB.
Hmmm…I hope he’s OK.
Dammit I had a cold three weeks ago and now I have another one, thanks to the germ share called my son’s school. And the cold gets passed around from one family member to another.
So I’m living on whiskey ‘n’ coke, plus some red wine.
And working from home.
..
So post good content, you freaks!
Yes, sounds like you could use some good medical advice, all right.
I’m still hoping that Sugarfree’s tamer content lately is a product of him building up all his Smut for a much larger project.
Flamingo World
Either there’s more to the story or Drupal did something very stupid.
BDSM sex rocks Drupal world: Top dev banished for sci-fi hanky-panky
Larry Garfield
I bet that didn’t help.
“Launch, manage, and scale ambitious digital experiences—with the flexibility to build great websites or push beyond the browser. Proudly open source.”
Kay. So how are the above goals inconsistent with his sexual fantasies?
Sounds to me like they’re trying to link him via his kinks to a male superiority/shitlord accusation, because WE CAN’T HAVE A GUY WHO WANTS A SEXUALLY SUBMISSIVE FEMALE ON OUR TEAM!!!
After reading some of the comments on that page, I’ll be in my bunk.
Sometimes I think they take scalps because there are scalps to take, and for no other reason than that.
power, if not regularly exercised, wanes
This stinks of that.
Unless there are unwilling participants, this is just a witch hunt to claim another head in the tech community.
You know what’s really hilarious?
My work firewall, which bans dilbert.com and sun.co.uk is very permissive in regards to Gorean sites. Apparently they are such a fringe minority as to be invisible to the solons of content filtering.
And you know this….. how?
I was searching for a good quote for my alt text. The results were… interesting.
because someone linked to that spherical chess image and I looked for rules and got to thinking about that gorean chess game and wondered if anyone made it and dear gods, don’t google it at work.
Also, if you’re ever looking to find a female version of the flash at work to do a certificate for a worker who gets shit done quick don’t google ‘female Flash’
What’s the reason given on the dilbert.com block? Followup: How annoying is your firewall admin?
Apparently my company is supposed to be a humorless place since it’s blocked for humor. The Sun OTOH, is blocked for pictures of scantily clad women.
Blocked for humor means “get back to work!”
Huh. Someone’s cranking up the sensitivity. There’s a 99% chance those are blocked by policy– I doubt your FW admin has individually put those in. That’s a highly strict policy.
U thought folks were tolerant of these things now a days
“the culture of male dominance and female sexual servitude depicted in John Norman’s poorly regarded Gor sci-fi novels.”
Just marry a Republican and get the same experience. /Jezebel
Also… poorly regarded is rather subjective cause I know quite a few people that find those novels rather inspiring.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/03/29/california-is-fine-with-undercover-sting-videos-that-expose-animal-cruelty/
If it’s true that CA has declined to prosecute slaughterhouse video recorders, is that going to help the people recording PP mount a defense?
HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
Oh wait! You’re serious?
Well, that depends on how much hypocrisy you think a California judge + jury can actually tolerate.
(restrains giggling)
It would make a federal appeal on 1A grounds easier, since the law tends to inhibit journalism by its nature, and is enforced in such a way as to result in viewpoint discrimination.
Why is BDSM a bad thing?
Binarily Divisible Salad Mollusks are a crime against humanity.
Big Dumb Spaniards and Mexicans
Raaaaaaaacist
Cynical take: Cuz hes a weedy little nerd. If he was cut and handsome, the harpies would be fanning themselves imagining being part of his harem.
here’s the thing tho =
without getting into the details of this leather&whips shit…. isn’t everyone involved in that shit doing it 100% voluntarily??
Then how the fuck does it have anything to do with “gender equality”? if some woman wants to play sex-slave, its their prerogative, and telling them that they can’t is by-definition ‘patronizing’, if not over-patriarchy
If you read Garfield’s second follow up, you’ll see he’s pretty much a SJW politically, despite being into Gor.
50 Shades of Grey is the top selling book ever on Amazon UK, outselling all copies of the Harry Potter books.
But I’m sure none of the women (or men!) involved with the project have read it, that would be grounds for making them an unperson!
The libetals in my family seem to once again, care about bombs being dropped overseas. The only response i could come up with was “yeah, obamas wars piss me off too”. No response. But im sure tomorrow they’ll put up some meme about missing obama and his scandal free presidency. Smh. How can smart people be so damned dumb
Millennial Carjackers flummoxed by stick shift, kill man in front of his family, unable to understand the ancient technology.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/03/12/carjackers-kill-texasman-front-family-realizing-drive-stick-shift-deputies-say
Woodchipper time.
I’ll help
“While in 2011 a girl’s pet Chihuahua was a mauled to death by four staffies.”
Doing God’s work.
Also, do those writers get paid by the word?
Kim Jung Un threatens war of annihilation against US over fat shaming by John McCain. He has previously also complained to China over insulting comments over his weight.
Also, I love the British media. Even when they adopt the language of the SJ left and throw around terms like fat shaming, they still have the perfect amount of bitchiness in their tabloids while still managing to throw up 5000 words around stories that consist of celebrity beach pictures.
I suspect that the daily mail has custom keyboards with buttons that insert strings like “shows off” “pert derriere” “in a skimpy bikini” and “that leaves little to the imagination.”
It’s always fun to click on a Daily Mail link at work, since the margins are filled with softcore porn.
I spend a good amount of time looking at social media for work if the shit I’ve seen on some pages hasn’t gotten me fired I doubt some sexy woman doing yoga will.
I am routinely surprised by the amount of browsing we get away with where I work, given the size of the corporation. There is absolutely no reason they should have to put up with streaming youtube videos, for example, but for some reason their policy is super lax. But I don’t want to push it, so I gauge what the urls actually say. Sex? Bikini? Nude? Body? Maybe I’ll pull it up on my phone, instead.
Ya I comment on here from my phone. I’ve seen the power my company weilds. But since part of my job utilizes social media we are given the nod. I’ve never come across anything too horrible but still probably enough to get the casual employer browser in trouble.
Employee* damn autocorrect
I would be perfectly fine with solving this with a slapfight between Un and McCain. Going to have to give the advantage to Un.
Yeah, funny you can have an article about Un, and McCain is still the biggest asshole in the article.
The pictures they put in the article are wonderful trolling.
The Media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome
“Journalists’ left-wing proclivities might not be so bad if the norm of objectivity still shaped the way they report the news. Sadly, many journalists, especially the younger ones, believe that objective journalism “is a myth.”…
“We must also look at how the media’s audience’s habits and opinions have changed….”
I see that Shikha was operating on all cylinders today. It’s now all Trump’s fault that some Indian politician hates Muslims because something something Muslim ban something something illegal aliens.
Meh. I left TSTSNBN so I didn’t have to read SD anymore.
I still think her scummiest moment was the absolute hatred she spewed at Bobby Jindal for daring to do things like not identify as Indian-American, using an English name and practicing a non-Indian religion (Islam, of course, always had its place in India).
I just read the print edition. She rarely, if ever, makes it there (as far as I can remember).
Wait, what?
Surely, Hindu nationalism and its conflict with Islam is new. It certainly hasn’t been going on for over a century. India and Pakistan are best friends. In fact, India wasn’t partitioned (more or less on religious lines) in 1947. Not at all. Tens of thousands of Muslims weren’t masacarred by Hindus in 1947 either. Nope.
It dates back a lot longer than a century. Probably from the time when Muslims committed mini-genocide when they first entered India.
Bruh.
Minnesota Pastime:
http://www.startribune.com/extreme-ice-skating-on-the-trails-of-duluth/417480063/
*throws skates in car and heads North*
It does look like fun.
Cool, dig the music as well, I’ve not heard of Kaleo before, gonna have to check them out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUkDu6koxmw
I have been laughing my ass off at this video.
I appreciate that those people are speaking english but nothing they say makes any sense.
Dude if that first bit doesn’t make you laugh, I got nothing for you.
it seemed to be men talking about other men’s body-hair. it was hard to understand why since they were all almost as bald as chinese babies.
White people.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There are some days I can’t help but be proud I’m a Canuck.
That. Was. Awesome.
Hey! It’s the same guys!
Funny. Super distracted by interviewer dude’s razor burn.
“I wouldn’t say shit if my mouth was full of it.”
Ahah.
You know what? Fuck it. That’s worth eight bucks.
“Why do you hate them so much?”
“Cause hockey players would grab a monkey by the tit if they could.”
Where’s the salt and pepper, bud?
Don’t you fuckin’ start.
S and P, the choice for me.
I paid a C-hair just shy of 20 for each of these C-suckers and I will not be told how to cook ’em.
Grill marks!
What ya wanna do, pan sear it, both sides, finish her off in the ovens.
Well, see, now that sounds like over-handling to me.
You’d be over-handling them, Squirrelly Dan.
Well, he’d be Squirrelly Dan’dling.
What, are you kidding me? I can’t buy a sub for this service? Do they know who I am? I’M AN AMERICAN, GODDAMNIT! WE INVENTED TV!
Wow. That’s disappointing. This seems like the sort of bootstrap regional show that could use any dollars thrown at it, even crispy green American dollars. Shame.
I doubt anyone has seen this unless you also have 4 NPR stations and 2 crappy music stations near you to choose from. I can’t stand listening most times, but when I do I am reminded of why I don’t…
Money line after all the hand-wringing is that 13 million people have entered the US from Canada since October and 7,000 have been turned away. The HORROR!
Oh yeah, first time trying this so if it doesn’t work I’m sure you can find it anyway…
Ok, guess you can’t search when the embedded text doesn’t show either. Just go to NPR and you’ll see it. Tags are hard…
and that was just because they were too drunk to answer the “do you have any fruits or vegetables” question
Those assholes took two apples from my car, in the middle of a goddamn Montana winter, because they lacked a nation of origin sticker on them. I guess next time when I snag some fruit from the hotel lobby in the morning I’ll be sure make sure the magical sticker is present.
The CBC is doing their best to gin up outrage over this. When they do allow comments on the articles, there’s a surprising amount of pushback in the comments with people pointing out that the US is under no obligation to let anyone in.
Another point in the story claimed many people canceled their travel plans to the US, including the Canadian version of Girl Scouts deciding not to come here. Probably based on said ginning. Maybe they should try Mexico…
Nothing wrong with our northern cousins wanting to gin things up down here. Nothing wrong with gin at all.
As someone who is banned from ever entering Canada, I say payback is a bitch.
Yeah, I had to point that out to the spousal unit the other day. She caught herself for a second and then sheepishly muttered, “You’re right, of course.”
I think the amazing ease with which most Canadians are granted an implicit 90-day visa to visit the U.S. simply by showing up at their border has led far too many of them to think that entry is somehow “owed” to them.
Hi everyone. I’m new here. Initially lurked at that other place since the comments were clearly more entertaining than the articles. Thought I’d pad your numbers a bit instead of lurking.
I will utilize this space to introduce myself: I am not Tulpa.
Thank you.
Damn Mexican immigrants.
I’m actually from Phoenix, but I fielded a lot of such comments in high school. I’m in the right place.
I’m in Phoenix! We could get together and I could totally tell you to go back to your own country! It’ll be AWESOME!
True story, when my girlfriend and I moved from New Mexico to South Carolina, we had a woman call my gf an illegal immigrant and tell her to go back to her own country. When my gf explained that New Mexico is a state, she said she had never heard of it. My gf is black, btw, with the straightest American accent you’ll ever hear. Good times.
Good God. My reply (after I picked my jaw up from the ground) would have been something along the lines of “Did you . . . go to school?”
We had a woman at Wal mart that had to check with her supervisor if she could sell us alcohol because she ‘wasn’t sure if our [New Mexico] IDs were valid here’.
Weird. I was stationed at Shaw for a time…your experience with the local yokels mirrors mine. “Yer clearly Mexican, but ya talk with uh educated voice. Offputtin.”
Yo. Tucson represent. Welcome aboard. Don’t drop the soap, and you should be fine.
Welcome, Senor Sharpshooter.
You know who else didn’t appear to be Tulpa?
“WakaWaka”?
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana?
I will utilize this space to introduce myself: I am not Tulpa.
We are all not-Tulpa. /*wink*/
That’s just what tulpa would say.
From the New Republic:
The moral case for universal health care is too often obscured by red-baiting. But once you accept that everyone should be covered, and establish that the expansion of government programs is the only viable path to achieving that goal, that case is difficult to ignore.
I linked to the article this morning when am links was dead.
I like it, though. It’s simple, clean, straightforward. “It is morally imperative that this be done; only the government can do it, and you’re evil if you don’t agree.”
“If you accept all of my premises, my conclusion is obvious.”
Oh, Lawd have mercy. This is what passes for intelligent commentary from public intellectuals these days.
We’re FUCKED.
This is the literary equivalent of asking a used car salesman ‘what’s the lowest price you’ll take?’
This is the crux of the healthcare debate, though. That simple notion that everyone should have healthcare on demand is pretty damn common. No free market solution would ever achieve said (mythical) 100% coverage. And even when you can show people that Medicare and Medicaid are awful, and there are in fact real drawbacks to the various universal schemes in their utopias over in Europe and areas where they fall way short of America’s healthcare, they’ll still demand everyone have healthcare. And even those who don’t want universal government programs usually still support a safety net because they don’t want to be the mean cheapskate who would just let people die if they couldn’t afford treatment on their own.
That, combined with the propaganda line young people have heard all of their lives from the media (to include or perhaps especially Hollywood) that Europe has better healthcare at lower costs, is difficult to overcome.
The sad part is they never dig in to how these systems manage acheive the lower costs. I work at an infamous VAMC. One example of cost containment is having a single MRI unit for a system “covering” around 90k Vets. On a per patient basis costs are reduced due to only having to purchase and maitain one MRI lasting several years.
Compare that to say, Mayo who just spent 6 or 7 figures on a top of line machine…they have to spread that cost among patients that can pay for the scan. But I bet they’ll catch that brain tumor before Christmas.
Yes. The fact that care gets rationed and any other basic economic argument of that sort tends to get dismissed as some sort of free market zealotry or voodoo talk from my experience. I was able to get a prog to agree on two basic points about government provided healthcare:
1. It was inferior to private insurance and care, for those who could afford the latter.
2. It was best left as a last resort.
The other side of this is that America’s healthcare gets passed off as free market when it’s already heavily regulated and distorted by every layer of government we have. Costs here are higher than they often should be given the care provided. Though this, too, is also hard for many progressives to accept or admit even when you can show hard evidence. But costs are also just higher because Americans do still enjoy more freedom of choice in what treatments they get and when they get them.
I love making people who take this tack argue that they have a right to the labor of healthcare providers.
You know who else asserted he had a right to other people’s labor?